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Violins and other stringed instruments : how to make them ; with numerous engravings and diagrams, 1906
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128 VIOLINS AND STRINGED INSTRUMENTS.
3A still better purfling gauge is shown by Figs. 43 and 44. To make it, take a piece of hard wood about 4 in. long, 1 1/2 in. broad, and 3/8 in. thick, and shape it as Figs. 43 and 44. The cutter A may be made from a piece of steel about 2 in. long cut from a joiner's nail-punch. File the steel parallel, and with a thin ward file cut a groove about 1/8 in. deep in one end, forming a double cutter as Fig 45, taking care that the over-all size is just the width of the purfling. A side view of the end is
5Fig. 43.
7Fig. 44.
9Figs. 43 and 44.—Purfling Gauge. Figs. 45 and 46.—Cutter of Purfling Gauge.
11Fig. 45.
13Fig. 46.
15circular as shown by dotted lines. Fig. 46 is a plan of the cutter looking upwards. The cutter should be filed up sharp with a fine file, but will cut cleaner and keep its edge longer if tempered and set up with a thin slip of oilstone. After the double cut (which must be done with a firm hand) is made all round the violin tables, the groove is cleaned out with a narrow chisel or a sharp bradawl.
17Another useful form of purfling gauge, easily made and very effective, is illustrated by Fig. 47. A is a
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